They are on a talent search for a German circus. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. Which is stronger, biology or will-power. But romance almost destroyed her family and almost cost her her life and Ida wants nothing to do with it. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. 7-year old Ida, a brave little girl, has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake.

Harsh realism and pure magic go hand in hand in this moving story about love, abandonment and alcohol.

Fearless Skrubsak follows Ida's proposal - so far that he is lowered into the deep chimney.

Grandmother has given Skrubsak a yelping teddy bear, and severely affected by jealousy Ida suggests to him that he should show the teddy bear to the Bogey Man. When the children show signs of naughtiness, she threatens them with the Bogey Man, who lives in the chimney and eats bad children. The two siblings Ida and Skrubsak are visiting their grandmother, a harsh woman without much understanding of small people and their thoughts and feelings. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.

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